One my all time favourite QI questions that not only was interesting but involved an interesting anecdote from Sally, Sandi getting hilariously irritated at the panellists, Aisling Bea being adorable but a little wrong on watches, while Alan and Sindhu just sit there thinking this conversation is nuts which led to Alan’s running “other advice is available gag” throughout the episode. One of the best episodes ever where everyone gelled brilliantly.
just in case no one has already mentioned this - quartz does NOT power watches. batteries do. quartz merely regulates the time, after being powered to do so by batteries.
@@shaneord7527 nope: a voltage is needed, from the battery: "A crystal oscillator relies on the slight change in shape of a quartz crystal under an electric field, a property known as electrostriction or inverse piezoelectricity. A voltage applied to an electrode on the crystal causes it to change shape;" the battery also powers the watch.
@@branbroken yes, but they don't use quartz if they don't have a battery. that's like saying "you are aware, that if you used a sundial for a watch, it would not use quartz"
She's actually lovely! I worked with her once and she was very humble and very funny, she royally took the piss out of her corporate audience ruthlessly, and they loved it! I really enjoyed that day!
1:40 the whole video was a lot of fun, but this very moment when aln does this face and you can see a thousand thoughts going throught his mind at once is beatifully enjoyable
Sally Philips has an amazing ability to find humour in everthing but deep down Im sure the many sufferers of related illnesses like SIFO,SIBO,Candida etc, etc know that what she went through can be very unpleasant. Its a pleasure to see Sally got through it, we need that smile in our lives.
"If you look at what powers a watch, it's just quartz". Yeah, no. Watches are powered by *batteries*. Quartz watches do use crystals, but they're in there to regulate the oscillator and they are still powered by batteries. So Aisling should be wearing a battery around her neck. :P
I wear a lot of amethyst jewellery and can confirm it does not keep you sober! I was already pretty sure of that but proved it outright one evening when my own tipsy gesticulation knocked off my earring which then splash-landed right in my Jack Daniels.
Well, maybe. But, going out on a limb here ........... Previous shows have reported that the idea of the new Pope being borne above the heads of the Bishops for a quick shufti up his cassock to make sure he's not a she *could* have evolved from the tradition of doing something similar with Bishops (and highly polished floors) so they might best check their ring to see how Brahms & Liszt they are.
@@babboon5764 lol There has long been an obviously sanctioned and organized effort to debunk the gender-check theory by any means necessary. It's exactly the sort of thing that tends to give the opposite spin in many quarters. It's more than having an official position on the topic. They clearly take active measures to suppress the mere telling of the gender-checking story where it arises. It's all a bit like polishing the deck & deck chairs of the Titanic one last time imo.
@@Hellwyck Yeah, the populace were so intelligent when they believed that a guy riding his horses around the sky is what brings the light, and them getting tired and going home brings the night? Or when people believed that the winner of a ritual basketball game should be sacrificed alive? Or when people thought that crippling their daughters by breaking and permanently deforming their feet would make them gorgeous and desirable? If people were such intelligent pagans before Christianity, then they couldn't have been brainwashed, could they?
You say this like it *isn't* a well known fact all watches contain Amethysts to charge the battery through piezo-electrickery. The Band Van der Graaf Generator played at Preston's Amethyst club in the sixties so obviously it must be true.
If amethyst signifies that the wearer is not drunk, during her brain yeast infection, amethyst would have probably burned Sally's skin like holy water on a vampire. :P
That's actually happened to me but it was a gut infection, if I eat too much simple carbs it makes me very intoxicated (like BAC >2.5) and I can end up in the hospital because of it
Not only is it rare it is also very serious. Sally may relate her anecdote with a smile but anyone who had experienced this condition knows just how awful it is. I have always admired Sally as a extra special human being this story increases my admiration even more.
Yeah, no - Quartz Watches are powered by a *battery* - this sends an electric charge through a quartz crystal which resonates at 32,768 times per second. Every 32,768 times it resonates is 1 second - and it counts those. That's it - that's all a quartz watch is.
Dont actually need the battery look up automatic quartz. No battery but usually uses some form of kenetic movement to operate the quartz ocilator for the timing.
@@branbroken Automatics use kinetic energy in the form of pendulum weights that wind the watch. As opposed to having to wind the watch daily like more traditional watches. Both used stored energy. One in batteries and one in…I’m not certain, some sort of wound spring probably. But even so, quarts doesn’t provide the power. Edit: I don’t want to come across like I’m disagreeing with you. I think we’re both on the same page, brother.
@@c0mputer I do love the Q.I. audience. I'd like Aisling to appreciate that it's absolutely OK to be wowed by the fascinating properties of quartz without the need to attribute to it powers that it just doesn't have. The piezoelectric effect is a wonder of physics and its incorporation into modern timepieces was a quiet but significant revolution in timekeeping. But that revolution was made possible by electrical engineers, horologists, mineralogists and physicists - not new-age mystics.
@@c0mputer The energy is stored in the mainspring, a coiled spring that is the motive power in a mechanical watch. There is also a hybrid called a mechanical quartz watch (Seiko Kinetic is a popular brand), which uses mechanical movement to power a quartz drive. Basically a small dynamo charging a capacitor or a rechargeable battery, powered by the movements of the wearer.
In the UK, while a blood or breath test can determine if someone is above the legal limit of alcohol, the only authority on whether someone is drunk is a policeman. Even a doctor is not deemed an appropriate expert.
Not sure if this is considered the same thing. Usually with auto-brewery syndrome it's microbes in your gut or urinary tract converting sugars into alcohol.
It's a testament to how much of a crush Alan clearly has on Aisling and Sally that he would be able to overlook the fact that one believes a load of Lady Magic bollocks and the other is a God-Botherer!
Quartz does not power a watch. Quartz watch/clocks use a battery and that battery's energy goes trough a quartz crystal crown in a special shape that gives it a fix vibration rate. Basically the battery acts as you hitting a tuning fork an infinite amount of time so it emits a fix level of sound. That vibration is then used to regulate the amount of seconds and the seconds go own to regulate the rest of the watch. It simplifies by quite a lot the the building of a watch/clock.
I could feel the whole audience cringing when she started talking about "the power of colours", energy and crystals. Then she tops it off with the nonsense about quartz powering watches.....
I think Miss Bea you've somewhat misunderstood the role quartz plays in watches. They do not power the watch. Batteries or a winding mechanism powers the watch. In electronic watches the quartz simply acts as an oscillator, similar to the pendulum in mechanical watches or clocks. It vibrates at a precise frequency when current passes through it. The watches electronics can then use this, converts it into seconds, and hey presto you got a pretty accurate timing device. I hope you're able to take this Miss Bea and put to bed some misconceptions.
Quartz doesn't power a watch. Quartz is the highly stable resonator in a watch, the power comes from either stored mechanical or electrical energy. I'm an engineer by trade who watches QI like a drug addict takes drugs. 😊
You clearly have some sort of vendetta against Alan, so have you considered just ignoring the show completely rather than feeling compelled to comment the same nonsense every time?
1:41 Alan thinking "ey up, where's your hand off to?" 🤣
One my all time favourite QI questions that not only was interesting but involved an interesting anecdote from Sally, Sandi getting hilariously irritated at the panellists, Aisling Bea being adorable but a little wrong on watches, while Alan and Sindhu just sit there thinking this conversation is nuts which led to Alan’s running “other advice is available gag” throughout the episode. One of the best episodes ever where everyone gelled brilliantly.
what episode was it?
QI Series Q, Episode 12 - “Quagmire”
Other advice is available
I want a t-shirt with this quote
Actual advice is available
That was such an elegant way to say "that's bollocks!"
just in case no one has already mentioned this - quartz does NOT power watches. batteries do. quartz merely regulates the time, after being powered to do so by batteries.
You are aware not all watches use batteries right. Also fun fact you can use quartz to produce electrical energy.
@@branbrokenNon battery powered watches are still not powered by quartz. The quartz regulates an electric signal that is used to measure time
When under pressure quartz vibrates at a set frequency, this regulates the time, the battery powers the watch.
@@shaneord7527 nope: a voltage is needed, from the battery: "A crystal oscillator relies on the slight change in shape of a quartz crystal under an electric field, a property known as electrostriction or inverse piezoelectricity. A voltage applied to an electrode on the crystal causes it to change shape;" the battery also powers the watch.
@@branbroken yes, but they don't use quartz if they don't have a battery. that's like saying "you are aware, that if you used a sundial for a watch, it would not use quartz"
Sally Philips has the best kind of energy.
She's actually lovely! I worked with her once and she was very humble and very funny, she royally took the piss out of her corporate audience ruthlessly, and they loved it! I really enjoyed that day!
She was amazing in TM!
Instantly my youth crush when I discovered Miranda
I was particularly attracted to her as the Prime Minister of Finland Minna Häkkinen in Veep...
@@ShopFloorMonkey r/thatHappened
Sally's anecdote was more QI than most of the facts we usually get.
1:40 the whole video was a lot of fun, but this very moment when aln does this face and you can see a thousand thoughts going throught his mind at once is beatifully enjoyable
Sally Philips has probably the best smile I have ever seen. I admit it, I have a crush
She's gorgeous in I'm Alan Partridge.
Sally Philips has an amazing ability to find humour in everthing but deep down Im sure the many sufferers of related illnesses like SIFO,SIBO,Candida etc, etc know that what she went through can be very unpleasant. Its a pleasure to see Sally got through it, we need that smile in our lives.
This clip was a complete giggle fest - thank you, thank you! 😂
1:40 the slight panic on Alan's face here is priceless
I don't know how Alan managed to stay so silent, but when he spoke. golden. But I bet in his head he was going lalalalalalanonononnogirlythingsnope.
I love Sally and Aisling both. And Sandi, without a doubt.
"If you look at what powers a watch, it's just quartz". Yeah, no. Watches are powered by *batteries*. Quartz watches do use crystals, but they're in there to regulate the oscillator and they are still powered by batteries. So Aisling should be wearing a battery around her neck. :P
That's not where the batteries go though.
Exactly. Like how a tuning fork, always produces one pitch when struck. Quartz is basically an electronic tuning fork
I find Aisling to be a very lovely woman who happens to be as dumb as a box of rocks.
@@buckturgidson1448 A box of quartz, you mean. But don't be so rude, not very gentleman of you.
@@der.Schtefan I feel no need to be gentlemanly about people like her.
But you’re right about “box of quartz,” it’s a better line.
Alan is a master of one-liners on the show.
And he's in series 12 of taskmaster, coming out this December. It's going to be fun
Taking a look at the choirboy's ring to see if it is an Amethyst has caused bishops unbelievable amounts of trouble over the last years.
Candidal meningitis is actually a very serious illness. Sally is lucky to have survived it.
I would absolutely LOVE a hug from Sandi!
Ah, so Sally must have been a microbrewery during filming of the Taskmaster. It makes so much sense now 😂
They play off each other so well!
I wear a lot of amethyst jewellery and can confirm it does not keep you sober! I was already pretty sure of that but proved it outright one evening when my own tipsy gesticulation knocked off my earring which then splash-landed right in my Jack Daniels.
Clearly your state of inebriation was repelling the amethyst, and that's why it flew off your ear.
Other advice IS available.
Aisling did manage to demonstrate exactly how nonsense woo beliefs come into popular culture then propagate.
Well, maybe. But, going out on a limb here ...........
Previous shows have reported that the idea of the new Pope being borne above the heads of the Bishops for a quick shufti up his cassock to make sure he's not a she *could* have evolved from the tradition of doing something similar with Bishops (and highly polished floors) so they might best check their ring to see how Brahms & Liszt they are.
@@babboon5764 lol
There has long been an obviously sanctioned and organized effort to debunk the gender-check theory by any means necessary. It's exactly the sort of thing that tends to give the opposite spin in many quarters. It's more than having an official position on the topic. They clearly take active measures to suppress the mere telling of the gender-checking story where it arises.
It's all a bit like polishing the deck & deck chairs of the Titanic one last time imo.
@@babboon5764 For the record, I adore Aisling. She can say some daft things though.
I'd be interested to hear more about Sally's thrush.
That's minging lol
Alan Davies subtly saying, "you're off your rocker, woman".
Brilliant! I ashamed/proud to say that “yeast infection” was the first place my mind went when I saw the title.
If you get one in your gut you can controll when you get self-pissed, it's called brewers gut and if you eat too many cards you get shitfaced
I adore Sally Phillips 😍
Its one thing for Sandi to say 'Its about quarts'. Two pints of Amethyst would be really expensive 'though.
I know a few people who don't trust the news but go to Church and also read star signs, what a species we are 😂
We used to be intelligent pagans then the populace was beaten down with brainwashing by the Church.
@@Hellwyck Yeah, the populace were so intelligent when they believed that a guy riding his horses around the sky is what brings the light, and them getting tired and going home brings the night?
Or when people believed that the winner of a ritual basketball game should be sacrificed alive?
Or when people thought that crippling their daughters by breaking and permanently deforming their feet would make them gorgeous and desirable?
If people were such intelligent pagans before Christianity, then they couldn't have been brainwashed, could they?
If you’re drunk, it probably has more to do with quarts than quartz.
The irony that they're talking about a form of quartz, which is used to keep time, and the outro is playing slower than normal.
What does Aisling think watch batteries are for?
yeah, she got that ever so slightly wrong.
You say this like it *isn't* a well known fact all watches contain Amethysts to charge the battery through piezo-electrickery.
The Band Van der Graaf Generator played at Preston's Amethyst club in the sixties so obviously it must be true.
If amethyst signifies that the wearer is not drunk, during her brain yeast infection, amethyst would have probably burned Sally's skin like holy water on a vampire. :P
That's actually happened to me but it was a gut infection, if I eat too much simple carbs it makes me very intoxicated (like BAC >2.5) and I can end up in the hospital because of it
The thing about the body making alcohol is real, but rare. Very few people ever have this issue.
Not only is it rare it is also very serious. Sally may relate her anecdote with a smile but anyone who had experienced this condition knows just how awful it is.
I have always admired Sally as a extra special human being this story increases my admiration even more.
Quartz vibrate a very specific amount when an electrical charge is applied, a battery for one.
This is THE best video! Haha
This was great. I wish Ailing hadn't gone into the new age nonsense, but Alan stepped in with the perfect joke to flush it away.
As opposed to the Christian nonsense which you had no problem with?
Asling literally said it was all nonsense lmfao
Has Sally been inhabited with the spirit of Bob Mortimer? 🧐😁
Am I strange for having a crush on Sally Phillips?
no
It just means you're human.
definitely not
Join the club, we meet on Thursdays
No
Yeah, no - Quartz Watches are powered by a *battery* - this sends an electric charge through a quartz crystal which resonates at 32,768 times per second. Every 32,768 times it resonates is 1 second - and it counts those. That's it - that's all a quartz watch is.
Dont actually need the battery look up automatic quartz. No battery but usually uses some form of kenetic movement to operate the quartz ocilator for the timing.
@@branbroken Automatics use kinetic energy in the form of pendulum weights that wind the watch. As opposed to having to wind the watch daily like more traditional watches. Both used stored energy. One in batteries and one in…I’m not certain, some sort of wound spring probably. But even so, quarts doesn’t provide the power.
Edit: I don’t want to come across like I’m disagreeing with you. I think we’re both on the same page, brother.
@@c0mputer I do love the Q.I. audience.
I'd like Aisling to appreciate that it's absolutely OK to be wowed by the fascinating properties of quartz without the need to attribute to it powers that it just doesn't have. The piezoelectric effect is a wonder of physics and its incorporation into modern timepieces was a quiet but significant revolution in timekeeping. But that revolution was made possible by electrical engineers, horologists, mineralogists and physicists - not new-age mystics.
@@c0mputer The energy is stored in the mainspring, a coiled spring that is the motive power in a mechanical watch.
There is also a hybrid called a mechanical quartz watch (Seiko Kinetic is a popular brand), which uses mechanical movement to power a quartz drive. Basically a small dynamo charging a capacitor or a rechargeable battery, powered by the movements of the wearer.
She likely had meningitis from yeast. It's amazing she's not dead.
I don’t think this is from Quaffing because in Quaffing it was Jo, Phil and Prune. This is a different episode, I forget which one
You're correct, this is from Quagmire!
@@naturallyblonde77 THATS the one word I could not think of! Thank you random commenter!
@@DoctorDetroitVideosStuff Happy to be of assitance!
Quartz does the timing a battery provides the power
In the UK, while a blood or breath test can determine if someone is above the legal limit of alcohol, the only authority on whether someone is drunk is a policeman. Even a doctor is not deemed an appropriate expert.
Ah.. Mexico... that explains it.
'S from series Q/17, episode 12.. Quagmire, innit!
Most comments about that quartz do not power things 😅
Look at what powers a watch
A BATTERY, AISLING, A BATTERY
"izzt ba'ray?" - Roisin, another bright mind that we love...
Don't be silly - She was talking about Watches not Chicken housing.
The technical term for this is "auto-brewery syndrome."
Wait, is that what the ABS in your car is about?
No officer I am NOT drunk... it's just my ABS!!!
Not sure if this is considered the same thing. Usually with auto-brewery syndrome it's microbes in your gut or urinary tract converting sugars into alcohol.
I've heard of that, maybe even on QI, but never in the brain. This must be very rare.
"How can I be certain, I am not drunk right now?"
"Oh it's very hard."
...you know...usually for men it is the opposite.
I want a night out with Sally Phillips and Aisling Bea. It would be epic, but of course I wouldn't remember a thing.
Well please come on, don't keep looking at your ring.
These people are not drunk as you suppose but this is that which is spoken of by the prophet Joel
It's a testament to how much of a crush Alan clearly has on Aisling and Sally that he would be able to overlook the fact that one believes a load of Lady Magic bollocks and the other is a God-Botherer!
Quartz does not power a watch. Quartz watch/clocks use a battery and that battery's energy goes trough a quartz crystal crown in a special shape that gives it a fix vibration rate. Basically the battery acts as you hitting a tuning fork an infinite amount of time so it emits a fix level of sound. That vibration is then used to regulate the amount of seconds and the seconds go own to regulate the rest of the watch. It simplifies by quite a lot the the building of a watch/clock.
Explains Taskmaster
literally demoman from tf2
The one time that I don't immediately stop the vid for fear of being annoyed at the ending, the ending that annoys me is back again.
I wish this would explain Sally's actions on Taskmaster but nope, this does not work in terms of chronology at all.
Because of that I often wish I was a water cooler...oh, there I go getting aroused again.
Sally says something super interesting, sandi gets mad. I miss stephen he'd have had like 300 questions.
Sandi didn't get mad lmfao we get it you hate that Stephen retired from the show but misinformation isn't the way to say you hate sandi
I could feel the whole audience cringing when she started talking about "the power of colours", energy and crystals. Then she tops it off with the nonsense about quartz powering watches.....
I mean it kind of does
@@TheAlps36 The quartz doesn't power anything. It only regulates the time.
@@WG55 but it's an essential component of the watch
@@TheAlps36 the face with the numbers on it is an essential part of a watch... Doesn't mean it powers the watch though does it...
@@TheAlps36 so is the strap, it doesn't power it though.
I think Miss Bea you've somewhat misunderstood the role quartz plays in watches. They do not power the watch.
Batteries or a winding mechanism powers the watch.
In electronic watches the quartz simply acts as an oscillator, similar to the pendulum in mechanical watches or clocks.
It vibrates at a precise frequency when current passes through it. The watches electronics can then use this, converts it into seconds, and hey presto you got a pretty accurate timing device.
I hope you're able to take this Miss Bea and put to bed some misconceptions.
😂
I love Aisling Bea!!!!
Not gonna lie, I actually enjoy NOT "picking something"...
Quartz powers a watch?
Quartz doesn't power a watch.
Quartz is the highly stable resonator in a watch, the power comes from either stored mechanical or electrical energy.
I'm an engineer by trade who watches QI like a drug addict takes drugs. 😊
As Alan rightly said: other advice is available.
@@zedcarr6128 that said, I'd argue the power of quartz is what makes the watch keep accurate time
@@TheAlps36 Well sure, but it does so by *regulating* the speed of a second, not by powering anything.
Aisling must be jealous
easy
I watched this at 666 views.
Alan is the only guy in this episode.
Well spotted...
A Finnish microbrewery.
I'm going to call all that nonsense "Lady magic" from now on
pancake
pancake
milkshake
don't eat mexican bin chicken
This was ALMOST a clip without Alan saying anything, that was not funny.
You clearly have some sort of vendetta against Alan, so have you considered just ignoring the show completely rather than feeling compelled to comment the same nonsense every time?
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